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Pokémon Champions game?
So Pokémon Champions, I'd say, seems interesting enough. There are pretty much three things I'd want to see with it:
The entire Pokédex. Please, Nintendo. Just C'mon. Stop keeping me away from my whole team!
All four gimmicks: We already saw Mega and Tera, but Dynamax and Z-Moves would also be nice to see.
Don't do the real time battle thing. I feel like there are way too many things in Pokémon that depend on turns (status effects, priority moves, weather) and sure, I'm fine with Z-A having it, but I just don't want to see it permanent. I've got Unite for real-time battles.
Anything people want to see? Or don't want to see?
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I don't want to see turn based battles either.
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I was saying the opposite. BTW what does that have to do with microtransactions?
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What does "BTW" mean?
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By The Way
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No P2W games please
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I would hope to see a full Pokédex. And I really hope there isn't a subscription service. They already expect people to pay for Switch Online and Pokémon Home. Tripple dipping is such a Nintendo thing to do.
Remember when the full Pokédex was a standard part of the game and all online services were free one console generation ago?!
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I wish I could say yes…
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I don't wanna sound like a doomer but from observing patterns with similar franchises having F2P ventures, even Pokemon with their previous F2P ventures (TCG Live, Go) made sure their games made money even if the player didn't directly invest with the in-game microtransactions.
I really hope Champions will be a fun game but from what I can see it already nailed the first part of monetized F2P gameplay, which is repetitive and mindless gameplay (basically the battle tree but the entire game is that, not even Pokemon Stadium did that and made sure to have more than just battling like minigames and whatnot which was expanded on in the sequel).
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Well, this is annoying. I just looked closer at Pokémon.com's section on transferring Pokémon to Pokémon Champions via HOME, and it says: "These transferrable Pokémon will be limited to those that appear in Pokémon Champions."
Oh, COME ON!
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